Each Peach Pear Plum (Picture Puffin Books)

This book has a rhythm and rhyme to the words that make it fun to read to a pre schooler. The illustrations are a delight and have hidden people in the pictures. This purchase was for a great grandchild because I loved reading it to my children when young.

This book has a special place in my heart... it was the first book I ever "read" (though really, I had it memorized, and just fooled (or if they weren't fooled, they sure pretended to be!) family and friends by "reading" the book by myself! LOL! And now, I read this book to my daughter almost every night. The poetic rhyme of the book makes it easy for kids to learn and remember. The pictures make the book interesting and fun for young minds. Older toddlers/school-aged children will love to try to find the characters hidden in each picture! The large words help parents and new readers move their fingers along under the words as the children try to learn the new words. Familiar characters help make reading less intimidating. I can't say enough about how truly wonderful this book is, and how much this book meant to me as a child, and how much it means to me now as a parent.

This is an amazing book! My students enjoy it and it keeps them entertained. I have bought it for two of my family members that are having babies as well!

The text is simple rhyming couplets that make it easy for a child to remember, and introducing them to some nursery-rhyme and fairy tail names they’ll hear later on (Tom Thumb, )The illustrations are wonderful, taking you into a gentle, sunny, imaginary world of make-believe and minor problem-solving. Every child I’ve given this book to has loved it.

This was my children’s favorite book and I often give it as a baby gift. It has rhyming and nursery rhymes in it to answer “I spy” types of questions.

This is a great book weaving lots of fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters. The illustrations are fun to point things out in, with lots of things for toddlers to observe. Characters and themes appear in multiple pages, giving lots to talk about beyond the text itself (which is also fun to read).

I don't know when or how I learned about Each Peach Pear Plum, but I know that I memorized as a child. When my kids were little, I would recite it to them (even though I didn't have a copy of the book), and then we got to the point where I would say the first part of the sentence and they would finish it. Somewhere along the way, I stumbled across a copy of the book so my kids could see that I wasn't completely nuts and this really was how it was read. My kids are all grown up now, but I still buy copies of Each Peach Pear Plum to gift to expecting parents as shower gifts. May their children grow up hearing the rhymes so much that they too can tell you who each character spied.

The rhyming, the beautiful illustrations, the vibrant colors....it has it all! It's fun to read and to look for the items in the pictures. This is a favorite!

Great book highly recommend

Compré este libro guiada por las opiniones que hay en amazon.co.uk y la verdad es que ha sido todo un acierto. La historia es una especie de "veo-veo" en la que los niños tienen que buscar en las ilustraciones personajes populares de las nursery rhymes y fairy tales que están escondidos en las mismas. La historia está escrita en verso, por lo que es muy fácil recordarla y las ilustraciones son preciosas. Mi hija todavía no sabe hablar, pero va repitiendo toda la historia en su lenguaje. En cuanto al tamaño, no cojáis el de tapa blanda, porque es diminuto y el libro pierde una gran parte de su valor. Decantaos por uno de mayor tamaño si queréis disfrutar del libro y, en particular, de las ilustraciones. Merece la pena a pesar de la diferencia de precio. Como el color es importantísimo, yo tampoco cogería la versión kindle.

We purchased the board book version of Each Peach Pear Plum for my daughter when she was a few months old. We have loved reading it with her ever since. It has also been remarkable to see how much she has continued to enjoy the book, and how she gets different things from it as she progresses through different stages in her development - she is now almost two! The illustrations are beautiful - second-to-none in my opinion. The text per page is also brief, which is great for short attention spans, though it is a slightly longer book than some; when my daughter was very little we would need to read it in stages. This quickly changed. The story centres around lots of different fairy tale, fable and nursery rhyme characters, with again, lovely illustrations of each to boot. It’s a marvellous way to introduce your child to different characters and of course to introduce them to the game of eye spy - a central feature to the book. It’s a brilliantly interactive book, for all ages. In our family we would initially point out the characters, then as my daughter has got older we would ask her to point out the characters. She now finds them, names them and can name some of the things they’re holding/doing. She really enjoys doing this. There also lots of other things within each picture for your little ones to ‘spy’. You could probably ask older children some good inference questions (I.E. what do you think Robin Hood is trying to do?) The one slight downside of the board book is it’s quality; the front page isn’t cushioned, like some other board books, and when my daughter has chewed the book in inevitable teething phases, the paper has become slightly damaged - in fact she did end up with some paper in her mouth. Perhaps something to be on the look out for to try and prevent with the little people in your life. Though I personally don’t feel it’s worth missing out on a classic children’s book for this!

Lovely little book just right for sharing with baby

It's awesome n my son who is 3 Yrs old enjoys reading this very much.. the text is rhyming coz of that he has memorized the book very easily n now rather than me narrating it he has taken over the job of narration.. There are stories within stories.. Ahlberg's books are classics n this lives up to the expectation.. Every child will enjoy finding the hidden figures n the illustration is soothing .. Amazing bed time story.. Must buy in every kid's book collection...